Policy balance
The recent appointment of Sanjay Malhotra as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), replacing Shaktikanta Das, signals a pivotal shift in India’s monetary policy dynamics.
The coastal State has logged 218 new COVID-19 positive cases, a 20% rise in the last 24 hours from 19 districts, pushing the cumulative tally to 10,52,145, the health authorities said on Wednesday.
Two fresh fatalities took the death toll to 8,439 while the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) at 0.35% continued to remain below 1% for almost two months.
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Of the new infectees, 28 were children. The rate of infection of children and adolescents in the age group of 0 to 18 years now is 12.84% against the previous day’s 17.14 per cent.
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The Khordha district reported the highest number of daily cases at 117. The district accounted for almost 54 per cent of the new infections while 11 out of 30 districts did not report any new cases in the last 24 hours.
The state currently has 1,925 active COVID-19 cases while 10,41,728 patients including 192 on Tuesday recovering from the disease.
As 218 samples gave positive results out of 61,764 samples tested on Tuesday, the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) stood at 0.35 per cent like the previous day.
The State’s recovery rate currently stands at 99% while active cases account for 0.18% of total positive cases registered in the State.
The State’s share is 3.07% in the country’s confirmed virus caseload while the active cases are 1.26% of India’s total active cases. The number of cured patients accounts for 3.09% of the country’s total recovery. Odisha has so far reported 1.84% of the country’s Coronavirus deaths.
The States health authorities have so far administered 4,62,50,882 COVID-19 vaccine doses while 1,78,12,374 people out of 3.09 crore eligible adult population are fully vaccinated. Around 57% of the eligible population has so far received both the doses of vaccine.
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